49. Unnatural Turkeys

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🗓️ 16 November 2011

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Our appetite for breast meat renders our holiday birds unable to reproduce.

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0:00.0	From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC.
0:07.0	This is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace.
0:11.0	Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Dog.
0:16.0	Time now for a little bit of Freakonomics Radio that moment in the broadcast every couple
0:20.0	of weeks where we talk to Steven Dubner, the co-author of the books and the blog of the same name.
0:24.0	It is the hidden side of everything.
0:27.0	Dubner, welcome back.
0:28.0	Hey Ky, thanks. I've got a little Thanksgiving quiz for you.
0:31.0	Yep, for that.
0:32.0	No, I don't do quizzes. It's my show.
0:34.0	All right, what?
0:35.0	I'm going to force you today.
0:37.0	All right, here we go.
0:38.0	Americans will probably eat about 40 million turkeys this month.
0:42.0	Now, I hope this doesn't kill your appetite, but what percentage of those 40 million birds do you think
0:48.0	were the product of artificial insemination?
0:51.0	Really?
0:52.0	That's the question.
0:53.0	That's the question.
0:54.0	It's really the question.
0:55.0	It is really the question.
0:56.0	Wow, okay.
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